Blue Beetle
Just finished reading all my back issue Blue Beetle comics from #6 up through #27. This is a fantastic comic book. It’s got humor. It’s got action. It’s got a cool new superhero with cool new powers. It’s got teenage angst. Hot babes. And great cameos from other DC super heroes and villains.
The general gist of the story is that the old Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, had this ancient magical blue scarab, which he could never get to fully activate. After what happened to Kord during the Infinite Crisis, the scarab was somehow found by a Mexican-American teenager from El Paso named Jaime Reyes. The scarab somehow fused with Reyes and turns into Blue Beetle Armor with all kinds of cool super powers. Reyes still doesn’t know how it works, however, because the scarab talks to him in some weird language he can’t understand. But that doesn’t stop Reyes from getting drawn into the superhero world, especially when his home town of El Paso is threatened.
I highly recommend picking up the trades for this comic, if you like good superhero stories, especially “new superhero figuring out his powers” stories. I’d give this whole run a comics a solid 9/10. Well worth your time if you like superheros.